So during the recent Game Developers Conference, Square Enix’s Dan Inoue the localization director and lead writer for Final Fantasy XV revealed certain aspects about FFXV that surprised many people. First he talked about how he usually doesn’t like to base fictional characters on real people and prefers creating a character with their own original and unique backstory. Well it turns out that while working with the Japanese voice actor for Noctis that he discovered a unique source of inspiration, Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana. He talked about how he didn’t want to have a stereotypical emo style character and was looking for something like “a rockstar who spurns the spotlight” which as it turns out is exactly how Kurt Cobain acted. So he used this to inspire the creation of Noctis’ personality and general feel of the character. So essentially Kurt Cobain was an inpsiration and helped mold and shape Noctis for FFXV.

Really interesting piece of information and it is always nice to discover stuff like this after a game is completed.